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The name Anne Geddes is synonymous with precious children in creative backgrounds. She is known in North and South America, Europe, the British Isles,Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. She is often called "One if the world's most respectedand successful professional photographers," because of her a...
Walt Whitman was looked upon as the forerunner of 20th Century poetry, praising democracy, and becoming a proclaimed poet of American democracy. He was known as the "Son of Long Island," and he loved his country and everything about it. (Current, Williams, Freidel- page 292-293). Whitman lived du...
The Influence Writings of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin is one of the best-known figures in American history. His industrious rise to success, his role in this country\'s struggle for independence, and his investigations into the mysteries of electricity are among his famous accomplishmen...
Meantime, the first pattern of arrivals of Asians to America - in any significant numbers - were the Chinese, in who were pushed out of their homeland but also drawn to the opportunities for employment in Hawaii, the American West, and British Columbia. There were also Korean, Fili...
Compare and contrast the work of at least two poets on the theme of American society and its values._________________________________________________________________________Walt Whitman (1819-92) wrote, "The chief reason for the being of the United States of America is to bring about the common good...
Problems and Promise Since the United States started counting the population, African Americans have always been the most dominant minority. However, now Hispanics outnumber African Americans as the largest minority group, with 38.8 million of them now living in the USA, according to Census Burea...
The 1960's were one of the most significant decades in the twentieth century. The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from ...
One of the greatest heroes the world has ever known Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He is most famous for his transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Lindbergh acquired great fame for doing "good will" tours in Latin America. Other than politicians and war heroes no one has yet quit...
The twenties are known to have been a decade of vast crime and racketeering, this is a directly due to the prohibition of alcohol. The passing of the of the 18th Amendment was supposed to mark the beginning of the "new era." In this time period there would no longer be legal sales of alcoholic bev...
The twenties are known to have been a decade of vast crime and racketeering, this is a directly due to the prohibition of alcohol. The passing of the of the 18th Amendment was supposed to mark the beginning of the "new era." In this time period there would no longer be legal sales of alcoholic bev...
Georgia Totto O\'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887. She was one of seven children and spent most of her childhood on a farm, with the typical farm animals and rolling hills. O\'Keeffe\'s aunt, not her mother, was mostly responsible for raising her. O\'Keeffe did not care much for her aunt; she on...
The Advantages of Home EducationUp until the 1850's most children in America were educated at home, so home schooling is not necessarily new. However the past twenty-five years have seen a revival in home schooling, and now between two and three million children in the United States are learning at ...
The curriculum framework of historyaE"social science for kindergarten throughgrade twelve is an effort to strengthen education system by building on thebest practices contained within previous frameworks. The revised frameworkfocuses on the chronological study of history. Placed in its geog...
THE LIFE OF A BLACK CIVIL WAR HERO:ROBERT SMALLSBYJIMMY K. A. CROSS1 OCTOBER 1998 The United States of America was founded on the principles of equality and opportunity for all. In the 1800's these principles were not strictly adhered to by all and a tremendous battle ensued. That battle was t...
"A little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man just concludedthe very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard." Sosaid Congressman Abraham Lincoln about Alexander HamiltonStephens.1 Stephens was born near Crawfordsville, Georgiaon February 11, 1812. His mother died shortly after hisbirth and hi...
The 1960's were one of the most significant decades in the twentieth century. The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North C...
The Truman Doctrine's Impact in Cold War StrategyBy the middle of the twentieth century's fifth decade, the world had been jolted by two catastrophic wars; a seven- year economic disaster and the recognition that weapons of mass destruction existed. Where blood had been spilled through hand to hand...